sacto joe

“AirPods are lighter than Galaxy Buds, weighing only 4 grams to Buds 5.6 grams. For something hanging out of your ear, that near 30-percent decrease can mean a lot.“

This. And it’s not coincidental that the Samsung product has a longer battery life: Bigger batteries weigh more.

Apple obviously weighed (no pun intended) the experience against the battery life and came down on the side of the experience (less mass). As the old joke goes, “I may be fat but you’re stupid, and I can always lose weight”. Apple can always increase the battery size if that becomes an issue.

And with an edge-to-edge display, how would you attach a cover? Or is protecting your investment something Samsung’s not interested in? After all, they can always sell you a new one when you drop your phone....

AppleExposed said:

wattouk said:

Wow, I've been browsing this forum for years, finally signed up and my first post is going to be on a Samsung phone!

 First impressions:

As a phone - awful
As a tablet - amazing
Price - ridiculous

 As a first gen product then its not that bad, they're laying the ground work for the future - which is great and something I hope Apple is doing behind the scenes as this sort of thing is the future. However, if this doesn't sell (which it won't) then will they carry on the R&D at a loss for say 10 years until it is as thin as current phones?

Anyway, fair play for the innovation but we know apple wouldn't release such a half baked product this early.

Apple releases things when they're finished.

Sammy shi*s out product to be "first". The morons claim Samsung is innovative and others copied. Repeat.

Reminds me of Samsung’s computer watch, which “came out first”. I can’t even remembe it’s name....

The first thing that sprang to mind: How do you protect this ~$2,000 investment? And it’s going to require a LOT of protecting, since folded it’s got a screen on both sides. And it’s out as a “pocket computer”, because of it’s thickness and probably weight.

New iPad Mini is soon due out. I’d bet you can buy one plus a top of the line iPhone for less than $2,000....

Edit: This looks to me like something designed to appeal to those interested in the latest gadget rather than something truly practical and useful.

Edit #2: I’ve designed a hinge for a different application that could actually allow this phone to be folded face to face. Seems to me that would be a much better way to go.

dav said:

sacto joe said:

I’m limping along with my 2000 iMac 27”

you mean 2010?
I'm still running a mid-2011 iMac 27" -- it's been a great machine, but now i'm looking to upgrade as well.

Oops! You’re right. I blame these old eyeballs....